30 million sky-high claims

Absrtact: This year for Baidu, it is not a lucky year. At the beginning of the year, writers were dissatisfied with the large number of pirated works in Baidu's library, and launched a mammoth crusade, until now the matter has not been completely closed. And then the musicians stood up,

This year for Baidu, it is not a lucky year. At the beginning of the year, writers were dissatisfied with the large number of pirated works in Baidu's library, and launched a mammoth "crusade", until now the matter has not been completely closed. Then, the music people also stood out, launched against Baidu MP3 anti piracy rights.

Now near the end of the year, Baidu is still not out of the trouble of copyright disputes, the "crusade" they are mobile game developers, accusing Baidu WAP website game channel to provide users with pirated games to download. Baidu denies it, saying the game comes from third-party websites.

30 million sky-high claims

November 11, Singles Day, a press conference held in Beijing, the organizers of the Chinese Mobile Games Developers Alliance (CPU).

In the meeting, the CPU said that 25 member units collectively sued Baidu, has been in the Haidian District people's Court trial. CPU said it was sued because Baidu ignored the interests of developers, in its mobile gaming platform on the existence of a large number of pirated games. and involving pirated CPU members of the game on as many as 300, according to the court to sue each game claim 100,000 yuan, the amount involved more than 30 million.

Baidu quickly responded to accusations, Baidu said, Baidu Mobile games are from third-party websites, Baidu has never cracked mobile phone games and uploaded. To improve the efficiency of non-smartphone users and the use of mobile Internet, Baidu only takes certain technical measures to help mobile phone users to download and use mobile games from third party websites more quickly and stably.

In addition, Baidu also said this August has launched a new mobile internet gaming application platform. At present, Baidu Mobile Internet Game application platform has been and hundreds of mobile phone game manufacturers to achieve copyright cooperation, netizens can directly download and use the platform than genuine mobile phone games.

Baidu, CPU diverging

Pan (Micro bo) is the CPU Union member unit China Entertainment Wireless CEO, to Baidu's argument, he thinks completely untenable.

"Baidu has a very large number of games involving infringing pirates, thousands of, including 354 of our CPU union members." Pan told reporters. He believes that these pirated games can not be uploaded by Third-party websites. First of all, the CPU alliance found that pirated games exist in Baidu's own server, "we almost spent more than six months of time for forensics, notarization work, collect a lot of evidence." "Pan said.

Second, Pan said that using WAP to visit Baidu Game channel, there is no upload game entrance. Moreover, Baidu WAP on the game is arranged, and even marked "XX version" and write completely free, in fact, is cracked version. "The game is edited, and can not upload the game, how to say this is a third-party upload?"

Pan said that the CPU alliance in fact as early as three months ago has sued Baidu, about two weeks ago experienced a first trial, but no court sentence. "At the time of the first trial, they did not justify the infringement in court, and he knew he did it himself, because all our evidence was clear." ”

According to Pan revealed that the launch of the conference, Baidu and CPU alliance between the contact, "in the fact that there is no controversy, but in the specific amount of compensation differences, we feel that they do not sincerity." He said that Baidu initially expressed willingness to pay 2 million, then up to 3.54 million, "that is 1 games to compensate 10,000." "But this in the CPU alliance, the amount of compensation is still too low," in the industry, generally speaking, the amount of compensation for each pirated game is low in 3~5 million, high Tatsu 8~10 million. ”

Reporter tried to interview Baidu Mobile internet Business Department general manager Yue, he said the interview should contact Baidu Pr. Baidu PR related people to Pan's statement clear response, "This is not the case, Baidu did not admit infringement", and said Baidu Mobile site on the game are from Third-party websites, Baidu has never cracked mobile phone games and uploaded to the site.

Game copyright deadlock to be solved

As a whole, the number of pirated games is increasing now. "We have taken legal action against pirates," said Kun, general manager of Baokai PopCap, the "Plant vs Zombies" developer and director of Greater China. ”

Legal rights for PopCap such a powerful game developers, it is not difficult, and for many small developers, this is a huge burden. "Development of mobile games, the first should be to apply for copyright, but now many companies are relatively small, limited energy, the game after they do not even register copyright." "Pan said.

In Kun's view, there are few laws and regulations on copyright protection, and the key is to see how to do it. "Genuine Enterprise's appeal is not to be able to obtain the biggest support, the infringement behavior is not easy to be decided, these operational level details still needs to improve." ”

And Pan said that the cost of violating the law is too low to a certain extent, resulting in rampant piracy. China Entertainment Wireless has sued a mobile phone game website, first-instance, second-instance judgments of the site infringement, "but they refused compensation, the court enforcement of its account also sealed off." But the site is still pirated, because it is far more profitable than his illegal costs, which is unthinkable abroad. ”